Shoe-lace fastener



.(No Model.)

F. W. LODER.

- SHOE LACE PASTBNER. v No. 576,761. Patented PebqQ, 1897.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QEETCE.

FRANK IV. LODER, OF POUGl-IKEEPSIE, NEV YORK.

SHOE-LACE FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 576,761, dated February 9, 1897.

Application tiled Jannaryr, 1896. Serial No. 574,435. (No model.)

Be itknown that I, FRANK W. LODER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Poughkeepsie, in the county of Dutchess and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoe-Lace Fasteners, of which the following is a speciiication, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

lL This invention relates to fastening devices for shoes, and to that class thereof which are known as lace-shoes; and the object of the invention is to provide a simple and effective device which may be secured 'to the shoe at the top thereof, and to which the end of the shoe-laces may be easily and quickly connected in such manner. as to hold them securely in place, thus avoiding the necessity of tying the same.

The invention is fully disclosed in. the following specication, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of a shoe provided with myimprovement; Fig. 2, a perspective view of the improvement or fastening device detached, and Fig. 3 a modification.

In the drawings forming part of this application, A represents an ordinary lace-shoe provided with the usual eyelets B and hooks B2, and the shoe is laced in the usual manner, the lace or string being shown at E; and in the practice of my invention I provide a fastening device which is adapted to be secured at each side of the fly of the shoe and at the top thereof, and which comprises a single piece of metal which may be cut from a piece of sheet metal7 and which comprises a central portion or head D, side arms or projections d, by means of which the fastening device is secured to the shoe, and additional arms or projections d2 and d3, which project in line with each other and at right angles to the projection d, and formed centrally of the head D is a hook d4, which is similar in form to the usual button-hook.

The operation will .be readily understood from the foregoing description when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings.

The fasteningv device is secured, as hereinbefore stated, to each of the Iiies of the shoe at the upper parts thereof by inserting the side projections d through the shoe or the material thereof and bending the same inwardly, as shown in Fig. l, and when thus secured in position the arms or projections clzand cl3 will extend backwardly, and the end of the shoe-lace is passed once around the hook d4 and then between the arms or projections d2 and d3 and upwardly between the arm or projection d2 and the material of the shoe. v

The upper side of the arm or -projection d2 is rolled or curved, as shown at d5, in order to increase the friction, and the outer end of said arm or projection is also curved outwardly in order to facilitate the hereinbeforedescribed operation, and in the construction shown in Fig. 3 the arms cl2 and d3 project forwardly instead of backwardly, as shown in Fig. l. It will thus be seen that I accomplish the object of my invention by means of a device which is simple in construction and which is comparatively inexpensive, and which will also securely hold the ends of the shoe laces or strings, and thus avoid the necessity of tying the same, or the frequent retying thereof, which is usually necessary 'when this means of fastening is resorted to.

Having fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination with the upper of a shoe',`

of a shoe-lace fastener, consisting of a metal plate formed as shown with a head D, having side arms d for securing the fastener to a shoe, and central hook di, and parallel arms d2 and d3 projected at right angles to the side arms, all the parts integral with the plate and constructed substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of theA subscribing witnesses, this 21st day of December, 1895.

FRANK W, LODER. lVitnesses:

JOSEPH M. Ears, EvERETr H. TRAVIS. 

